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DESCRIPTION:Displacement: Place, Power, and Race\nThe Foreclosure Defense Group
presents its second event in the "Welcome to Class Warfare"
series\n\nFriday, March 8th\n6:30-9:30pm\n$? Free!!\nFirst Congregational
Church\n2501 Harrison St, Oakland, CA\n\nGentrification, foreclosures,
"urban redevelopment".... all are facets of the same brute force we feel
acutely in our daily lives : Displacement, the uprooting and shifting of
communities serving the demands of speculative capital and white supremacy.
We offer this forum to hear voices from different struggles, to deepen
understanding of the powers at play, and to strategize for popular self
defense.\n\nHistorically, Economically, the Fight Ahead of Us\n\n James
Bealum, former Fillmore resident and organizer, will speak on the community
organizing against displacment in the Fillmore of the mid-1960s\n\n
Darwin Bond-Graham, Oakland journalist and sociologist, will present on his
recent work detailing the local "foreclosure-to-rental mill". on the
further impositions of precarity on the working class and communities of
color.\n\n Tony Marks-Block, an organizer with the Stop the Injunctions
Coalition will speak to the deployment of gang injunctions effecting
displacement\n\n Brooke Terpstra, FDG organizer, will present on
different models of present organizing and their underlying values and
limitations.\n\n Community members.... You! Each segment is intended
not only as a presentation but as provocation! As starting points for
discussion, the inclusion of all our voices. Each portion will have ample
time and space for any questions and discussion.\n\n\n\n Hope to see you
Friday!\n\n\nWheelchair accessible.\nChildcare provided (please
rsvp)\nFriday, March 8th\n6:30-9:30pm\n$? Free!!\nFirst Congregational
Church\n2501 Harrison St, Oakland, CA\n\nFor any questions and childcare
RSVPs, you can call the FDG hotline 510.207.0182 or email us at
foreclosure@occupyoakland.org\nOCCUPY OAKLAND FORECLOSURE DEFENSE
GROUP\n"Nobody gets put out. Period."\n\n\n
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/04/18733116.php
SUMMARY:Foreclosure Defense Training: Displacement: Place, Power, and Race
LOCATION:First Congregational Church\n2501 Harrison St, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/04/18733116.php
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